Berry-picker.



J. W. HOLMAN. BERRY PIGKER.

APPLICATION FILED NOV. 14, 1907.

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PATENTED MAR. 3, 1968.

J. W. HOLMAN. BERRY PIGKBR.

APPLICATION FILED NOV. 14. 1907.

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PATENT oEE1oE JOHN w. HOLMAN, or wEsT CREEK, NEW JERSEY.

'BERRY-PICKER.

No. sooner.

Specification of Letters Patent.

Patented March 3, 1908.

Application filed November. 14. 1907. Serial No. 402.221-

Toall whom it may concern: I

Be it known that 1, JOHN W. HOLMAN, a citizen of the United States, residing at lNest Ocean county, New Jersey, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Berry-Pickers, of which the following is a specification. \My invention relates to berry pickers, especially that class of pickers intended for picking cranberries, and my invention consists in the construction and arrangement of\ a rotary picker with radial arms and an end less carrier and a means for driving the same,

i as fully set forth hereinafter and illustrated in the accompanying drawing, in which: Figure 1 is a side elevation of a picker embodying my improvement; Fig. 2 the same showing the transmission gear between'the drivers and the shafts; Fig. 3 a longitudinal central sectional elevation; Fig. 4 a plan view showing one end of the picker; Fig. 5 an enlarged detached view of one of the arms; Fig. 6 a section on the line 66 ig'. 5; Fig. 7 an enlarged detached view of a section of the carrier. Fig. 8 is aplan showing a part of the carrier.

The frame A of the apparatus isof any suitable construction'to support parts hereinafter described, but preferably has side plates with supports 22 for a detachable er B and a guard plate 3 extending hopp from below said hop er to a posltion below a icker C. This pic er may be of any suitable character, but as shown consists of a shaft 4 having curved radial arms 5, the said shaft turning in bearings in the frame and being driven from a drive wheel E through a-suitable system of gears F so as to securea more rapid movement of the picker than that of the drive wheel. i

Preferably the drive wheel turns detachably'upon a stud 6 so that drive wheels of different sizes may be applied to said stud where it is necessary to varythe distance of,

the frame from the ground, and the periphery of the drive wheel may be serrated.

At a point above the'guard plate 3 and between the latter and the picker turns loosely a roller 8, and at a point above thehopper turns a roller 9, and around these re .ers passes an endless carrier D of suitable construction, and the roller 9 is driven from one of the gears driven by the drive wheel. As shown there i with the shaft of the roller 9 andv receiving a ohain' whiclrpasses to a sprocket, wheel 10 icker' s a sprocket wheel 28 geared connected with the gear driven by the driving wheel. If desired there may be a drive wheel at each side of the apparatus, and

time to time as required withoutthemeces; sity of changingthe arms. While the arms may be secured permanently to the shaft 4 they are preferably provided'with threaded studs 18-screwinginto'threaded sockets of the shaft so as tobe detachable; and thus any arm which becomes worn or broken may: be readilymeplaced. While the carrier D may be of any suitable characterl prefer to construct it of one or more chains 20 of flatcon- 'nected links and to support flat upon these links blades 21 of thin wood or other like material, and to fingers 22 extending about right angles from the links are connected blades 23 which retain the berries afjer they-arepicked and thrown onto the carrier by the picker, in connection with the blades 21, until they pass beyond the roller 9 when they fall into the hopper.

- The frame may be provided withsuitable bails H, I, by means of which it may be pulled or pushed over the ground, the curved arms entering beneath the plantsand rising and drawing back the berries whichare supported by the; arms, the latter preferably eing about one-fourth of an inch apart so that both a raking and a picking effect is secured.

The picker is so geared with the driving Wheel that as it rotates the forward arms are carried upward. This results in the ends of the arms being introduced among the vines near the ground and then moving upward and carrying off the berries and tends to open up and loosen the vine so as to insure'the proper separation of the berries.

tion and arrangement shown, I claim:

1. The combination in a cranberry picker, of a frame, a picker consisting of a shaft carried by the frame and radial arms, arecepth- "ole supported at the rear ofthe frame, an endless carrier supported at the front at a These blades may therefore be renewed from Without limiting myself to the cohstruc- I means for supporting the shaft and driving I picker and at the rear above the receptacle,

. ried by the frame and radial arms, a recepthe carrier.

3. The combination with the frame, re-

. movement. to the picker arms at the front of. the machine for the purpose set forth.

frame, a guard plate supported at the botpointbelow the picker and at the rear at a point above the receptacle, {and a drive wheel and means for rotating the shaft and driving belt therefrom.

2. The cornbinationin a cranberry picker, of a frame, a picker consisting of a shaft cartacle supported at the rear of' the frame, an endless carrier supported at the front at a point below the picker and at the rear at a point above the receptacle, drive wheels and the belt therefrom, and a guard plate below ceptacle, and picker of aberry picker, of a drive Wheel, and an endless carrier, rollers supporting the carrier at the'front below the and means for driving the rear roller and the picker constructed to' impart an upward 4. The combination in a berry piokerof a tom of the frame, supports for a detachable,

receptacle abov the rear of the guard plate, a picker forwar and above thefront edgeof the guard plate, an endless carrier extendin from a point between the picker and guar plate to a point above the receptacle, a drive Wheel and means for driving the picker and I 'shaft, series of radial curved. arms, and

blades connected detachably to said arms.

7. The combination in a berry icker of a frame, rotatable picker, receptac e, endless carrier, and rollers supporting thecarrier,

said carrier consisting of an endless band or chain and two series'of transverse slats one lying flat onthe chain and the other at right angles to the chain.

In testimony whereof I affix my. signature presence of two Witnesses.

/ I JoHN WQHOLMAN.

Witnesses:

' JOSEPH B. Cox, Jr.,

'W. J. JoNEs. 

